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« on: March 30, 2016, 02:30:35 PM » |
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Promotional photographs demonstrating technical expertise that are staged by non-technical folks are almost always humorous. So... what's wrong with this picture?
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2016, 02:35:00 PM » |
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Well, she's going to have some burned fingers....
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2016, 02:53:44 PM » |
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Well, its very, very obvious as to watt is the problem. She's using a Radio Shack soldering iron.
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Solder would be nice to have, too.
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2016, 04:22:34 PM » |
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who has ever hand soldered a disposable PC mother board without solder?
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2016, 04:27:07 PM » |
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She's not wearing her strap on. She needs a good grounding.
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2016, 05:52:57 PM » |
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Smells like burnt chicken
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2016, 07:06:23 PM » |
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Marketing Department Strikes again!!! Our best product is BS!!
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2016, 07:50:50 PM » |
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She saw pencil tip and went with it
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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2016, 09:07:13 PM » |
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At least She has Her Mandatory "Protective Eye wear" in Place.
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« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2016, 11:31:01 PM » |
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At least She has Her Mandatory "Protective Eye wear" in Place.
Indeed she does Pete, but the major wrongness factor here is that the "Protective Eye Wear" clashes with her outfit! Outrageous!!! Rob W1AEX |
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2016, 04:00:04 AM » |
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Promotional photographs demonstrating technical expertise that are staged by non-technical folks are almost always humorous. So... what's wrong with this picture?
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She's married. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2016, 05:17:28 AM » |
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Maybe they think it's a High Voltage Probe
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2016, 08:59:55 AM » |
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I've done that when too tired, in a hurry, boss breathing down my neck. It's a very special kind of pain!
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2016, 09:18:00 AM » |
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All I can say is OUCH!
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2016, 11:05:17 AM » |
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Must using be the new cold solder technology...
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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2016, 12:35:47 PM » |
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In my uteth, I picked up my Unger on the wrong end. Its amazing how much skin will stick on to the ceramic element.
One should also wear socks and long pants when soldering.
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« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2016, 12:57:56 PM » |
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My first shortwave radio at age 14 was a Knight Kit Space Spanner. And, yeah, I did pick up the soldering iron like a pencil...one time. To this day (52 years later) the fingerprints on my index finger and thumb are altered and way too unique, making me abandon all hope of a career in safe-cracking.
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« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2016, 06:58:06 PM » |
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At least She has Her Mandatory "Protective Eye wear" in Place.
The protective eyewear is wrong. It's for a 532nm laser. -or- It's not a laser soldering pencil. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2016, 08:16:17 PM » |
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In my uteth, I picked up my Unger on the wrong end. Its amazing how much skin will stick on to the ceramic element.
One should also wear socks and long pants when soldering.
klc
I learned the hard way that it isn't a bad idea to just wear shoes when soldering. Was in the shack working on a project one day and just had socks on and managed drip solder off of the end of the iron right onto my foot. It burned through the sock and if I remember right, went between my toes and burned through the bottom of the sock. |
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« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2016, 08:43:19 PM » |
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Indeed she does Pete, but the major wrongness factor here is that the "Protective Eye Wear" clashes with her outfit! Outrageous!!!
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« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2016, 09:40:38 PM » |
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So... what's wrong with this picture? No décolletage. Ya gotta give 'em hope if ya wanna sell the soap! W4EWH |
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« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2016, 10:20:42 AM » |
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I picked up a soldering iron like that once when I was about 11. That was the day I learned I knew how to cuss!  |
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« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2016, 11:08:11 AM » |
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Roland, looks like they improved the situation slightly, but the gurl ain't go no solder or solder wick wurkin'! When I was repairing Fender guitar amps I always wanted to see the production facility for the folded line reverberation devices that were "Manufactured by beautiful girls in Milton, Wisconsin under controlled atmosphere conditions"...
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« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2016, 12:23:48 PM » |
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I've always been suspect of the 'atmosphere conditions' around anything related to guitars.  Had one of those RatShack pencils as my first iron. Also grabbed it once without looking. It left a nice dent down the side of my middle finger once it healed. Woke up before applying pressure with my index finer, thankfully. |
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